British police officers have detained a man, 23 years of age, alleged of raiding the U.S. Department of Defense and stealing information from a satellite system that was being used by the military to connect with people all over the world.
56 other arrests were made this week, along with this one, in twenty detached operations performed by the locally controlled felony divisions, Metropolitan Police officers and others. The others caught a group of accused fraudsters and a sixteen year old thought to be at the back hundreds of cyber hacks, according to UK’s Nationwide Crime Bureau.
Yet the detention that the bureau highlighted most was the one that beleaguered the planet’s most influential last June 15.
On this date, somebody accessed the U.S. Department of Defense’s computers and got information related to the Superior Phone Satellite Services structure. This had contact information — including names, mails and cell numbers — the hacker was able to get the info of approximately 800 people and 34,400 devices.
None of the hacked material was thought of as private, nor did it actually include “susceptible information” or anything that “gives away the U.S. state safety benefits.”
Still, the person accountable for the attacks cryptically made it big in a post to Pastebin, a site that permits anonymous posts.
Beside screenshots of the control panel used to manage the Defense Department records, the cyber criminals wrote: ‘We slice the Lizards, LizardSquad your end is coming,’ in an evident allusion to an infamous group of black-hat cyber criminals.
The suspected cyber criminal (23 years of age) was not recognized by name, with the UK State Crime Bureau saying that he was under arrest on Wednesday morning in a Birmingham suburb, Sutton Coldfield, in the region around West Midlands.
The U.S. armed forces has been under attack by cyber criminals before. Some of those proceedings have been liable on ISIS supporters, like the January momentary conquest of the U.S. Central Command’s YouTube page and Twitter account. And just last year, U.S. central bureaucrats charged four men of raiding into the computers of the U.S. armed forces and Microsoft and pilfering more than $100 million of software, some of it being associated to the game ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.’
There’s no indication that the June cyber attack had something to do with ISIS or the robbery of anything being of high economic value. Still, attacks from bands such as Lizard Squad and Anonymous can have an important impact.
Jeffrey Thorpe, singular manager in charge with the U.S. Department of Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), said in the British government declaration that ‘this detain accentuates DCIS dedication and the combined hard work of global law enforcement to cyber crimes fully and completely.”
Jeffrey Thorpe ended by saying that the DCIS special agents will make use of all tools available to track and bring to court those who hack the Department of Defense.
